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Eli Noam

Eli Noam is an Israeli-American economist and professor at Columbia Business School who studies the economics and policy of media and telecommunications.

born 1946Media and telecommunications economicsDirecting the Columbia Institute for Tele-InformationResearch on global media ownership

Born: 22 August 1946, Jerusalem
Occupation: economist
Education: Harvard Law School

Eli Noam was born in 1946 in Jerusalem

Eli Noam was born in Jerusalem on August 22, 1946. He moved to the United States with his parents as a child.

He studied economics and law at Harvard University. He earned a BA in 1970, an MA in 1972, and both a JD and a PhD in 1975. His doctoral advisors included Martin Feldstein and Thomas Schelling.

Noam served in the Israel Air Force during the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War.

He began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1976 and directs the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. He took leave to serve 3 years as a Commissioner of the New York Public Service Commission. He has also taught at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and St. Gallen, and wrote over 400 articles.

From 2003 to 2005 he sat on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. He is married to Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU.

Milestones in Eli Noam's life

1946
Born in Jerusalem.
1967
Served in the Israel Air Force in the Six-Day War.
1973
Served in the Israel Air Force in the Yom Kippur War.
1975
Earned a law degree and a PhD from Harvard.
1976
Began teaching at Columbia Business School.
2003
Joined the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee.
2006
Received an honorary doctorate from LMU Munich.
2013
Became President of the International Media Management Academic Association.